Dr.-Ing.
Katrin Winkelmann
Patent Attorney
European Patent Attorney
European Trade Mark and Design Attorney
Representative before the UPC
Dr.-Ing.
Patent Attorney
European Patent Attorney
European Trade Mark and Design Attorney
Representative before the UPC
Dr.-Ing.
Patent Attorney
European Patent Attorney
European Trade Mark and Design Attorney
Representative before the UPC
In her comprehensive, strategic IP consultancy for hidden champions and innovative medium-sized enterprises, Katrin Winkelmann combines legal and technical expertises with an entrepreneurial perspective on intellectual property. This includes freedom-to-operate and infringement analyses, patent portfolio and patent mapping analyses, transaction consulting and IP due diligence, as well as patent valuation.
Katrin Winkelmann has many years’ experience in creating international patent portfolios. Another core area is attacking and defending patents, in opposition, appeal and revocation proceedings. Her work to safeguard competitive advantages also includes legal action against rights infringements and the enforcement of claims. She also advises on innovation programmes and employee incentive arrangements regarding employee inventions.
In 2019, “Lawyer Monthly” conferred Katrin Winkelmann the “Women in Law Award” and she has been nominated as "Patent Attorney of the Year" for the "Women in Business Law Award 2021". According to Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers, she ranks as one of Germany’s best lawyers in 2022 in the field of Intellectual Property Law. IAM Strategy 300 recognises Katrin Winkelmann as one of the “World’s Leading IP Strategists”: “Coming from a management consulting background, Katrin Winkelmann puts the emphasis on business when advising on complex patent portfolio, enforcement and transactional matters. Her strategies are well-calibrated and grant her entrepreneurial clients an immediate edge" (2021). "Praised for the exceptional quality of her work and targeted manner of addressing clients’ needs, Katrin Winkelmann is a discerning choice of partner for strategic patent projects. She fosters creative approaches in emerging areas such as the Internet of Things” (2020).
Katrin Winkelmann speaks German and English.
Engineering studies at TU Darmstadt, Germany, in the USA and Great Britain, Master's degree in Civil Engineering (Dipl.-Ing.); PhD (Dr.-Ing.) in Mechanical Engineering at RWTH Aachen University.
Several years of professional experience as strategy consultant at Boston Consulting Group in the area of industrial goods, innovation and process management and at the Institute for Industrial Management FIR at RWTH Aachen University in the area of application-oriented research and consultancy for hidden champions and innovative SME.
Legal training at Eisenführ Speiser, at Mannheim Regional Court as well as in the in-house IP department of a global leader in agricultural engineering. Patent Attorney since 2010, European Patent Attorney since 2011.
published by Eisenführ Speiser
published by Eisenführ Speiser
mt|medizintechnik Heft 05/20, TÜV Media GmbH (Publisher)
published by Eisenführ Speiser
Interview in DeviceMed
Januar 2020
Recognition in Lawyer Monthly "Women in Law Award" Publication, August 2019
published by Eisenführ Speiser
BC – Zeitschrift für Bilanzierung, Rechnungswesen und Controlling, Heft 4/2019, Seiten 186 bis 189, Verlag C.H.BECK oHG, München
Contribution in Lawyer Monthly
August 2018, weitere Autorin/further author: Dr. Sandra Müller
published by Eisenführ Speiser
published by Eisenführ Speiser
im Rahmen der PATINFO 2016 "Big Data - Chancen und Herausforderungen", 8. bis 10. Juni 2016, Ilmenau
published by Eisenführ Speiser
Perspektive Patentanwalt, e-fellows.net wissen, 2010
Gaterman/Fleck (Hg.), Technologie und Dienstleistung, Innovation in Forschung, Wissenschaft und Unternehmen, Beiträge der 7. Dienstleistungstagung des BMBF, 2008
Integration von Intellectual Property Management in den Service-Engineering-Prozess, "UdZ-Unternehmen der Zukunft", Schwerpunkt Dienstleistungsmanagement, 2/2007
Shaker Verlag, 2007, zugl.: Aachen, Techn. Hochsch. Diss.
Donatelli, S., Thiagarajan, P.S. (Hrsg.): International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets (ICAPTN) 2006, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006
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